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Homes of our forefathers in Boston. Old England and Boston, New England (1889)

Whitefield, Edwin · Boston, Damrell & Upham · leaf 67

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s is a very curious ancient house. It belonged to the Robinsonfamily, formerly of great distinction and influence, and must have been builtas earlv as 1570. and probably much earlier. The second door to the rightis a curious one, and the ornamentation of the upper part of the house is verypeculiar… … o m z o X -Wi^,-J_;^- V-ii^;,.. N ^^OMB OF A KNIGHT. This is the effiev of a Knight wroucrht in alabaster, but has neither coat ofarms nor inscription. It is probable from the dress and sculpture of thisfigure that it belongs to the thirteenth century. These ancient tombs areplaced under low arches…

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